Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality. By Mr. Addison |
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... virtue only less powerful than the appro- bation of confcience , he who knows that he is al- ready degraded by the imputation of guilt , will find himself half disarmed when he is assailed by tempta- tion : and as he will have less to ...
... virtue only less powerful than the appro- bation of confcience , he who knows that he is al- ready degraded by the imputation of guilt , will find himself half disarmed when he is assailed by tempta- tion : and as he will have less to ...
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... virtue , to deliberate a moment upon this proposal . She gave immediate orders that Clodio should be admitted no more . But his letter was a temptation to gratify her vanity , which she could not refift ; she shewed it first to her ...
... virtue , to deliberate a moment upon this proposal . She gave immediate orders that Clodio should be admitted no more . But his letter was a temptation to gratify her vanity , which she could not refift ; she shewed it first to her ...
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... virtue : the goods of fortune are too gross and material ; those of love too light for our minds ; only those of virtue deserve to be made their object . It is for her only that competitors endure one another in their designs ; 1 1 0 e ...
... virtue : the goods of fortune are too gross and material ; those of love too light for our minds ; only those of virtue deserve to be made their object . It is for her only that competitors endure one another in their designs ; 1 1 0 e ...
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... virtue is the only proper foundation of friend- ship , and that none but good men are capable of it : and , among these , it may not improperly be defined to be - An industrious pursuit of our friend's real advantages , or obliging ...
... virtue is the only proper foundation of friend- ship , and that none but good men are capable of it : and , among these , it may not improperly be defined to be - An industrious pursuit of our friend's real advantages , or obliging ...
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... virtue , and difcretion , had been thrown into the scale against her sister's personal charms , the more confiderate part of man- kind would not have found themselves at a loss to know to which side the balance inclined . Myrtilla was ...
... virtue , and difcretion , had been thrown into the scale against her sister's personal charms , the more confiderate part of man- kind would not have found themselves at a loss to know to which side the balance inclined . Myrtilla was ...
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